Zachary Bennett
@zmbennett.bsky.social
Asst. History Professor at Norwich University in Vermont. Writing about rivers and all that flow through them.
www.zmbennett.com
www.zmbennett.com
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Zachary Bennett
@zmbennett.bsky.social
· Dec 20
Contested Currents – Penn Press
www.pennpress.org
My book has a (preliminary) page @pennpress.bsky.social ! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be published in October 2026. www.pennpress.org/978151283015...
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Hi friends, does anyone have digital access to "The adorable ways of God in his sovereign government, particular over the powers of this” by Petrus van Driessen? 1726 publication, I know the Gilder Lehrman has a digital copy, not sure if other places do. Thank you in advance!
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Hi friends, does anyone have digital access to "The adorable ways of God in his sovereign government, particular over the powers of this” by Petrus van Driessen? 1726 publication, I know the Gilder Lehrman has a digital copy, not sure if other places do. Thank you in advance!
I'm quite excited for @earlymodjustice.bsky.social/Holly Brewer's forthcoming book The King's Slaves. How African slavery arrived to North America is misunderstood and often clouded by contemporary political issues. Brewer's argument is both shocking and convincing.
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I'm quite excited for @earlymodjustice.bsky.social/Holly Brewer's forthcoming book The King's Slaves. How African slavery arrived to North America is misunderstood and often clouded by contemporary political issues. Brewer's argument is both shocking and convincing.
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“In an average year, some two hundred million tons of sediment are in transport in the river. This is where the foreland Rockies go, the western Appalachians. Southern Louisiana is a very large lump of mountain butter…”
-John McPhee, The Control of Nature
-John McPhee, The Control of Nature
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“In an average year, some two hundred million tons of sediment are in transport in the river. This is where the foreland Rockies go, the western Appalachians. Southern Louisiana is a very large lump of mountain butter…”
-John McPhee, The Control of Nature
-John McPhee, The Control of Nature
Good article from on language revitalization efforts among the Passamaquoddy Indians in eastern Maine.
www.pressherald.com?p=7550180&uu...
www.pressherald.com?p=7550180&uu...
To fight loss, Passamaquoddy speakers are talking new life into their language
Elders say it's not too late to save their mother tongue, and a younger generation is stepping up to help.
www.pressherald.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good article from on language revitalization efforts among the Passamaquoddy Indians in eastern Maine.
www.pressherald.com?p=7550180&uu...
www.pressherald.com?p=7550180&uu...
Contested Currents provides a new explanation for the social and environmental changes that transformed America into the industrial capitalist society that would sweep across the continent.
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Contested Currents provides a new explanation for the social and environmental changes that transformed America into the industrial capitalist society that would sweep across the continent.
Rivers were the primary energy source in early America; like the pipelines and coal plants of our time, controversy and conflict surrounded them. By uncovering the violent story behind the first dams to cross American rivers...
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Rivers were the primary energy source in early America; like the pipelines and coal plants of our time, controversy and conflict surrounded them. By uncovering the violent story behind the first dams to cross American rivers...
My book has a (preliminary) page @pennpress.bsky.social ! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be published in October 2026. www.pennpress.org/978151283015...
Contested Currents – Penn Press
www.pennpress.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My book has a (preliminary) page @pennpress.bsky.social ! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be published in October 2026. www.pennpress.org/978151283015...
It was an opportunity for historians to interact with the public and bring their work out of the ivory tower. But their exodus to this highly censored echo chamber site reveals that historians prefer the protection of the ivory tower, and that they would rather talk AT the public than with them.
Working on something about what Twitter meant to historians - what was good/not good about it for the profession, in relation to the general crisis of academic history / the profession, etc., the cratering of the university. What was #twitterhistory at its best? What were its failures? 🗃️
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It was an opportunity for historians to interact with the public and bring their work out of the ivory tower. But their exodus to this highly censored echo chamber site reveals that historians prefer the protection of the ivory tower, and that they would rather talk AT the public than with them.
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Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
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Save the Date! Details coming soon.
October 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Save the Date! Details coming soon.
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assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
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‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
Big conservation news on Maine's Kennebec River! The Nature Conservancy has reached an agreement with Brookfield Renewable to purchase 4 dams on prime sea-run fish spawning habitat. #envhst
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
Restoring Balance to the Kennebec River
An innovative agreement sets the stage for TNC and partners to restore the river’s ecological health while strengthening the region’s economic vitality.
www.nature.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Big conservation news on Maine's Kennebec River! The Nature Conservancy has reached an agreement with Brookfield Renewable to purchase 4 dams on prime sea-run fish spawning habitat. #envhst
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
This new land will be used to forward the Penobscot Tribe of Maine's first priority: restoring Atlantic Salmon runs.
www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...
www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...
Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings
The Appalachian Mountain Club is repatriating the parcel to its former Indigenous stewards as part of a larger acquisition finalized Tuesday.
www.pressherald.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This new land will be used to forward the Penobscot Tribe of Maine's first priority: restoring Atlantic Salmon runs.
www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...
www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...
I thought Corey Booker had claim to the Mr. PH throne. We seem to have a challenger.
September 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I thought Corey Booker had claim to the Mr. PH throne. We seem to have a challenger.
French fashion and the devil go hand in hand.
#OTD September 15, 1692, Stephen Johnson confirmed his pact with Satan, as well as his love for French fashion: "he was to have of the Devil for his Service...a pair of French fall Shoes"
September 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
French fashion and the devil go hand in hand.
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#OTD September 11, 1692, in Salem Village Reverend Samuel Parris preaches on Revelation 17:14 "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them."
September 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
#OTD September 11, 1692, in Salem Village Reverend Samuel Parris preaches on Revelation 17:14 "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them."
would gun laws have prevented this tragedy?
September 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
would gun laws have prevented this tragedy?
Congratulations to Kid!
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Congratulations to Kid!
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Atlantic sunset: “as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever” saith Herman Melville.
August 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Atlantic sunset: “as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever” saith Herman Melville.
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There is truly no “getting high on your own supply” quite like writing a proposal for research funding.
August 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
There is truly no “getting high on your own supply” quite like writing a proposal for research funding.
Happy to announce that I've signed a contract with UPenn Press for my book Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England.
Also...I've submitted my revised manuscript and that after several years the final product will hopefully be out in the world sooner than later!
Also...I've submitted my revised manuscript and that after several years the final product will hopefully be out in the world sooner than later!
July 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Happy to announce that I've signed a contract with UPenn Press for my book Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England.
Also...I've submitted my revised manuscript and that after several years the final product will hopefully be out in the world sooner than later!
Also...I've submitted my revised manuscript and that after several years the final product will hopefully be out in the world sooner than later!
"Between 2010 and 2024, at least 170 dams were removed in this region...That’s more than double the number of removals during most of the preceding century."
Great to see dam removal and river restoration highlighted in the @csmonitor!
#envhst
www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...
Great to see dam removal and river restoration highlighted in the @csmonitor!
#envhst
www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...
Go, fish. How removing old New England dams is opening rivers to new wildlife. - CSMonitor.com
www.csmonitor.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Between 2010 and 2024, at least 170 dams were removed in this region...That’s more than double the number of removals during most of the preceding century."
Great to see dam removal and river restoration highlighted in the @csmonitor!
#envhst
www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...
Great to see dam removal and river restoration highlighted in the @csmonitor!
#envhst
www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...
great Simpsons reference! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYS4...
Kippers for breakfast? Is it St. Swithin's Day already?
YouTube video by provi
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July 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
great Simpsons reference! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYS4...